Hello! Thank you to emilyemma99 for reviewing my first chapter it means a lot! Here is the first real chapter and the second one should be up by Friday as I am really busy tomorrow and the next day. But you never know, maybe with reviews I will be able to update sooner?

"Come on! Come on Auntie Klen! We can't be late for my first day at school," Talyra burst in through the door of her aunt's bedroom fully dressed in her school robes,

"Go back to your room it is six o'clock in the morning," moaned her aunt who'd had a great disliking for children ever since her triplets were taken away from her by her husband many years ago. Her broken heart had turned cold with regret for not treating them well enough.

"Go back to my room?" how can you say that when my room is no bigger than a cupboard," laughed Talyra

"You are lucky," she yawned, "That I took you in in the first place, considering everything your mother did, magic does things like that to people. You should avoid it,"

"Not everyone turns out like my mother, you are good Auntie Klen,"

"I am not magic like she was and like you or any other witch or wizard living in this world is,"

She wasn't, Klencania was a squib and the only one in her family for generations but instead of being miserable about her status she had spent her whole life pretending she thought magic was a stupid idea and a great waste of time. Her mother had tried to give her away to an orphanage but even they would not take a squib so she had to lead the life of a neglected child and so did her children,

"But please Auntie! It will take three hours to get to Kings Cross Station this time of day, not to mention how on earth I actually get on to the train and of course we still have to finish packing, eat breakfast and-"

"Okay! Okay! I am coming you little wreck," she grumbled,

"Hey!" Talyra cried,

"Now you listen to me kid," she approached Talyra and grabbed her by her hair, "Today is the last day I am spending with you before you go off to that magical wizard school place. Once you are there you can never come back here, do you understand?"

"Yes Auntie," she mumbled, "But-"

"No buts-"

"But you see.. in the letter it said that it was a fantastic opportunity to show people that I am not evil like my mother. I have been locked up in this tiny house my whole life with you who has clearly wished I never came from the start, do you really think I would ever want to come back here,"

"You will have nowhere to go," her aunt pointed out,

"I would rather be on the streets of Knockturn Alley than in a house with you for another day of my life,"

"Well then we had better get you ready to leave so that you don't have to!"

Klenciana drank her coffee in silence whilst Talyra munched her cheerios miserably, trying her hardest to make one of them float in the air as she had done to her cornflakes a few weeks ago but was not really in the mood to. She had changed out of her school robes because she didn't want to magical folk to see her wearing them just incase she exposed magic to the world and instead put on a tattered pair of jeans she'd had for a few years and a faded striped jumper. Her shoes were old trainers which had been scuffed and covered in mud from the year she had been wearing them as her only pair of shoes. The only part of her that was fully immaculate was her hair which she had neatly done in two braids down her back. After she finished eating Talyra hurried up to her tiny bedroom which was filled to the brim with everything she needed for Hogwarts. Talyra glanced at all of her new things and decided that this was one of the most exciting parts about going to Hogwarts - the school funded all of her robes, books, her beautiful tortoiseshell cat which she had named Bumpy and a wand. Her wand was 10" sycamore wood with a core of dragon heartstring and was brown with a delicate handle of leaves and berries engraved into the smooth material. The wand maker- Mr Ollivander had been very surprised with the result of her wand being that as it was almost the complete opposite to her mother's one. She was confused at how he managed to remember every person he ever sold a wand to but he told her that it was just a gift he had always had.

The most exciting part of all was that nobody knew who her mother was except from the headmaster meaning that she would not be judged for things her mother had done as they did not affect her in the slightest way. Happily, she collected all of her things together - a grand total of two trunks, a smaller bag, her wand, cat in basket and ticket. Once it was all arranged neatly in the front hall she sat down on one of the trunks and waited patiently at the door for her aunt to appear. Once she did Talyra asked how they would be getting to the station,

"Well we were going to travel by taxi but then I decided that would be far too expensive so we are taking the bus and the train then walking from Waterloo station to Kings Cross,"

"But that will take forever," moaned Talyra, "Can we not just take a taxi and it should only take an hour or so to get there? Besides, I will never be able to get all of this luggage on all of that transport it will take years before I arrive and-"

"Okay! Sometimes you make me think how sickly children are when they always get exactly what they want. I shall put you into a taxi now but I am not coming with you,"

"Why not?" Talyra questioned,

"I am teaching today at ten and I can't be late,"

Talyra knew for a fact that Klenciana did not teach on Wednesdays but did not argue as she thought she would probably enjoy the trip more without her aunt there. As the taxi approached the driveway Talyra jumped excitedly and put her things in the back,

"Goodbye Auntie!" Talyra said happily as she entered the taxi with her cat and basket in hand. She got no reply but she knew that what her aunt wanted to say to her would not be allowed in front of a normal person so she kept quiet and went inside leaving Talyra to glimpse her home for the last eleven years for the very last time,

"Well this is it Bumpy, we are going to Hogwarts!" she exclaimed quietly to the small cat barely out of kitten hood, but the only reply she received was a gentle mew and a purr.

It took nearly two hours to reach the station as Klenciana's house was quite far out of London and Talyra slept for most of the way, when she arrived she hopped out of the taxi with her things on a trolley and searched for the name of the platform on her ticket, nine and three quarters, she thought, I can see platform nine and ten but no nine and three quarters anywhere.. maybe there will be someone else coming to the same platform. Many people walked past but none of them seemed to be going to nine and three quarters and it was nearly time for the train to leave. Talyra almost gave up hope when a girl with long red hair and green eyes rushed up to her,

"Hi," she said

"Hi," replied Talyra, "Do you know how to get to the platform?"

"Umm.. Oh yes I remember - you have to run as fast as you can through the wall between platforms nine and ten and you will be there,"

"Really?"

"Yep! Weird I know, but you had better go; my family is coming to say goodbye. Slightly confused, Talyra started to turn her trolley towards the wall separating platforms nine and ten and as she heard the girl's mother speaking to her and crying over her departure, ran at it at full speed with her eyes squeezed together in fear of crashing and falling unconscious. Luckily she made it through for she realised when she opened her eyes that she was on a totally new platform with a bright red train on the tracks. There were lots of other children there getting onto the train so with five minutes to spare before it was scheduled to leave, she handed in her things and entered the train to find a place to sit. It took her a while to find somewhere empty but eventually in the third carriage there was a free space for her and Bumpy to sit together. Although she was happy to be going Talyra was worried that someone would find out who she really was before they could become real friends with her - I am probably just paranoid - she thought.

Just seconds before the train departed the same red headed girl came rushing in and sat down with her,

"Hi again, you don't mind if I sit here do you? It is just that everywhere else is full and the train is about to leave,"

"Sure, I'm Talyra, what's your name?"

"Lily," said the girl "Lily Evans.

Thank you for reading, any suggestions? And which house do you think Talyra should be in?

Rueflower7 xx